How does LULU's PE Ratio compare to its peers?

LULU is expensive based on its Price-To-Earnings Ratio (20.5x) compared to the peer average (12.3x).

How does LULU's PE Ratio compare vs other companies in the Asian Consumer Retailing Industry?

LULU is expensive based on its Price-To-Earnings Ratio (20.5x) compared to the Asian Consumer Retailing industry average (16.2x).

What is LULU's PE Ratio compared to its Fair PE Ratio? This is the expected PE Ratio taking into account the company's forecast earnings growth, profit margins and other risk factors.

Insufficient data to calculate LULU's Price-To-Earnings Fair Ratio for valuation analysis.

What is the Fair Price of LULU when looking at its future cash flows? For this estimate we use a Discounted Cash Flow model.

LULU (AED1.87) is trading below our estimate of [[fair value]] (AED2.88)

What is the analyst 12-month forecast and do we have any statistical confidence in the consensus price target?

Target price is more than 20% higher than the current share price and analysts are within a statistically confident range of agreement.

LULU Stock Overview

Operates food and non-food products retail stores under the LuLu brand in the United Arab Emirates, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Oman, Qatar, Kuwait, Egypt, Bahrain, and internationally. More details

LULU fundamental analysis
Snowflake Score
Valuation	3/6
Future Growth	4/6
Past Performance	3/6
Financial Health	1/6
Dividends	0/6

Rewards

Trading at 35% below our estimate of its fair value

Earnings are forecast to grow 14.77% per year

Earnings grew by 67.7% over the past year

Analysts in good agreement that stock price will rise by 34.6%

Risk Analysis

Shares are highly illiquid

Interest payments are not well covered by earnings

My Notes

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Price History & Performance

Summary of share price highs, lows and changes for Lulu Retail Holdings
Historical stock prices
Current Share Price	د.إ1.87
52 Week High	د.إ2.06
52 Week Low	د.إ1.75
Beta	0
1 Month Change	-1.58%
3 Month Change	n/a
1 Year Change	n/a
3 Year Change	n/a
5 Year Change	n/a
Change since IPO	-8.33%

Recent updates

Shareholder Returns

	LULU	AE Consumer Retailing	AE Market
7D	-2.1%	-2.2%	1.5%
1Y	n/a	-0.02%	2.5%

Return vs Industry: Insufficient data to determine how LULU performed against the AE Consumer Retailing industry.

Return vs Market: Insufficient data to determine how LULU performed against the AE Market.

Price Volatility

Is LULU's price volatile compared to industry and market?
LULU volatility
LULU Average Weekly Movement	n/a
Consumer Retailing Industry Average Movement	4.1%
Market Average Movement	4.0%
10% most volatile stocks in AE Market	8.5%
10% least volatile stocks in AE Market	2.2%

Stable Share Price: LULU's share price has been volatile over the past 3 months compared to the AE market.

Volatility Over Time: Insufficient data to determine LULU's volatility change over the past year.

About the Company

Founded	Employees	CEO	Website
1974	55,329	Saifee Rupawala	n/a

Lulu Retail Holdings PLC operates food and non-food products retail stores under the LuLu brand in the United Arab Emirates, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Oman, Qatar, Kuwait, Egypt, Bahrain, and internationally. The company operates hypermarkets, express stores, mini markets, and central kitchens, as well as sells products through e-commerce website and mobile application. It also engages in the trading and retail sale of foodstuff, meats, groceries, fruits, electrical appliances, readymade garments, perfumes, and stationery products.

Lulu Retail Holdings PLC Fundamentals Summary

How do Lulu Retail Holdings's earnings and revenue compare to its market cap?
LULU fundamental statistics
Market cap	د.إ19.62b
Earnings (TTM)	د.إ940.82m
Revenue (TTM)	د.إ27.87b

20.5x

P/E Ratio

0.7x

P/S Ratio

Is LULU overvalued?

See Fair Value and valuation analysis

Earnings & Revenue

Key profitability statistics from the latest earnings report (TTM)
LULU income statement (TTM)
Revenue	US$7.59b
Cost of Revenue	US$5.84b
Gross Profit	US$1.75b
Other Expenses	US$1.49b
Earnings	US$256.12m

Last Reported Earnings

Sep 30, 2024

Next Earnings Date

n/a

Earnings per share (EPS)	0.025
Gross Margin	23.01%
Net Profit Margin	3.38%
Debt/Equity Ratio	103.7%

How did LULU perform over the long term?

See historical performance and comparison

Company Analysis and Financial Data Status

Data	Last Updated (UTC time)
Company Analysis	2024/12/25 11:28
End of Day Share Price	2024/12/25 00:00
Earnings	2024/09/30
Annual Earnings	2023/12/31

Data Sources

The data used in our company analysis is from S&P Global Market Intelligence LLC. The following data is used in our analysis model to generate this report. Data is normalised which can introduce a delay from the source being available.

Package	Data	Timeframe	Example US Source ^*
Company Financials	10 years	Income statement Cash flow statement Balance sheet	SEC Form 10-K SEC Form 10-Q
Analyst Consensus Estimates	+3 years	Forecast financials Analyst price targets	Analyst Research Reports Blue Matrix
Market Prices	30 years	Stock prices Dividends, Splits and Actions	ICE Market Data SEC Form S-1
Ownership	10 years	Top shareholders Insider trading	SEC Form 4 SEC Form 13D
Management	10 years	Leadership team Board of directors	SEC Form 10-K SEC Form DEF 14A
Key Developments	10 years	Company announcements	SEC Form 8-K

^* example for US securities, for non-US equivalent regulatory forms and sources are used.

Unless specified all financial data is based on a yearly period but updated quarterly. This is known as Trailing Twelve Month (TTM) or Last Twelve Month (LTM) Data. Learn more here.

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Analyst Sources

Lulu Retail Holdings PLC is covered by 5 analysts. 5 of those analysts submitted the estimates of revenue or earnings used as inputs to our report. Analysts submissions are updated throughout the day.

Analyst	Institution
Michel Salameh	Citigroup Inc
Hatem Alaa	EFG-Hermes Research
Harsh Mehta	Goldman Sachs

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